(Food & Beverage Products) Senior Sanitation Supervisor

Job Summary:The Senior Sanitation Supervisor/Sanitation Supervisor is responsible for the leadership of sanitation team members, procedures,programs,and regulatory requirements, ensuring all plant equipment is clean and safe for production.

Essential Functions:

• Empowers team members:Will empower team members through leadership and supervision, training, and feedback opportunities, to meet and exceed expectations for productivity, quality assurance, waste management and food/personal safety. Leads the performance appraisal and progressive, corrective action steps to promote positive and safe teamwork environments.
  
• Ensures compliance of company policies and procedures:Safety regulations, GMP s, SOP s, SSOP s, HACCP and SQF.
  
• Coordinates and guides team members:Will provide training on a variety of situations including startups, shutdowns, preoperational inspections, product changeovers, change management concerns and sanitation.
  
• Sr. Sanitation Supervisor -Provides back-up support:Fills in for the sanitation manager during absences and for sanitation supervisors as needed.
  

Requirements

Required Qualifications:

• Sr. Sanitation Supervisor:Demonstrated six years supervisory or leadership skills in a USDA regulated facility leading a sanitation team OR a bachelor s degree and three years of supervisory or leadership experience in a USDA regulated facility leading a sanitation team.
  
• Sanitation Supervisor:Demonstrated three years supervisory or leadership skills in a USDA regulated facility leading a sanitation team OR a bachelor s degree with a prior Food Science (or closely related) internship.
  
• Demonstrated expertise and competence in sanitation/production processes; ability to supervise multiple departments/processes at once.
  
• Working knowledge of industrial sanitation chemicals usage and applications.
  
• Working knowledge of USDA regulations, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), sanitation processes/procedures and HACCP.
  
• Demonstrated mechanical and spatial aptitude, including the ability to disassemble and reassemble equipment and the ability to formulate and understand complex mathematical equations.
  
• Strong interpersonal skills, to include professional oral and written communication, a team-focused approach and the ability to model composure/make decisions in stressful situations.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree in poultry science, food science, biological sciences, or closely related field
  
• Prior experience in a poultry facility
  
• Prior experience with SAP or Infinity
  
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) strongly preferred
  
• Competent in Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel, and Outlook
  
• Knowledge of general First Aid and CPR
  

Benefits